# Pre-made AMIs
The following AMIs are publicly available. You can use them to [[start a NetBSD instance|/amazon_ec2/netbsd_in_5_min/]] quickly.
They come with [src](http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-fetch.html) and [pkgsrc](http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/) bundled under */usr/src/* and */usr/pkgsrc/* respectively, or a bootstrap script to help fetch them when necessary. The bootstrap script can also be used to set up binary packages support using pkgin(1).
Note: these AMIs send an email to the maintainer on first launch, to
help gauge usage. Also, **6.0_BETA images are updated periodically as the beta-testing continues, and the AMIs change.**
## amd64 (x86_64) -- 64 bit AMIs
The following AMIs are for 64 bit instances.